Re: CULT: moisture content (was Pot or don't pot)

From: "Lora L. Masche" <loramasche@cdepot.net>

Hi Ellen,

It was interesting reading your message.
I am doing the opposite from you, as I don't want my rhizomes drying up into
brown leaves and then wondering if they will grow once in the ground.

With the heat in the 90's and new rhizomes arriving and no where to plant
them just yet,
I have each and everyone sitting in a glass where the water just covers the
roots.
Two  weeks ago I received space agers and did not have the beds ready and
still do not.  They still are sitting in water and some have started new
growth.  They show no side effects and are still green just like the day I
received them.

With it being as hot as it is, there is no purpose in planting them in the
ground until it cools off.  The ground is too hot to plant them or I'm
afraid I'll bake them.

I have two orders going out tomorrow and the rhizomes are on the floor if
front of the air conditioner keeping cool until they are boxed for shipment
in the morning.

Good luck with all your rhizomes.
Lora L. Masche
Forquin Mountain Iris Garden
21643 Shake Ridge Road
Volcano, CA 95689
(209)296-4436
http://welcome.to/irisgarden
-----Original Message-----
From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 5:46 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: moisture content (was Pot or don't pot)


>From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>
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> Walter Moores wrote in part:
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>> And, now, on to the moisture content in those West Coast
>>rhizomes.........did it come from there or is it sweat when those boxes
>>hit the humid South and East?  Are we perpetuating an old wives tale our
>>foreirisfathers taught us by drying them out for weeks?
>
> This is the first time that I have almost 200 bearded iris
> rhizomes literally spread all over 2 houses (don't ask) on
> newspapers for 3 - 4 weeks. I usually give them 10 days to
> sit before planting. Anyway, I was chagrined to discover only
> the rhizomes from Aitken and Keppel were 'weeping' - they were
> on an old table in a dry basement. Some of these were *new*
> intros and I gallantly moved the table with the rhizomes through
> a door to another room where there is a dehumidifier.
>
> The ones from Superstition and also from the Craigs are just fine.
> So, West Coast can be a misnomer.
>
> Of course, the ones from other parts of the country are also looking
> good and that includes Walter Moores' irises. :)
>
> Of course, the nonsense with the beardless irises far outweighs the
> bearded - I have all of them soaking in pails with the water changed
> every blasted day - this week-end, we plant, the iris-god willing.
>
> Happy to have my old 'moose' address back - so descriptive :)).
>
> Ellen
>
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>Siberian iris robin   /   sibrob@ncia.net
>Northern New Hampshire, USA / USDA Zone 3
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